14th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2024)

Session

Plenary

19 Aug 2024, 09:00

Rainbow Theatre

Conveners

Plenary: 1

• Mahananda Dasgupta (Australian National University)

Plenary: 2

• Thomas Aumann (TU Darmstadt)

Plenary: 3

• Achim Schwenk (TU Darmstadt)

Plenary

• Robert Tribble (TAMU)

Plenary

• Umesh Garg (University of Notre Dame)

Plenary

• Iris Dillmann (TRIUMF)

Plenary: EDI -Talk

• Sherry Yennello (Texas A&M University)

Plenary

• Paul Fallon (LBNL)

Plenary

• Nu Xu (LBNL)

Plenary

• Kevin Hahn (Center for Exotic Nuclear Studies, IBS)

Plenary

• Dirk Rudolph (Lund University)

Plenary

• A. Galindo-Uribarri (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Plenary

• William Lynch (FRIB and the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State Univ.)

Plenary

• Takashi Nakamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

270. Experimental Prospects for Research on Superheavy Elements

Prof. Dirk Rudolph (Lund University)

19/08/2024, 09:00

Heavy and Superheavy Elements

Invited Talk

What are the heaviest elements that can exist or be created in Nature? Does an ‘Island of Stability’ exist beyond uranium? Questions like these are often asked in connection with Long Range Plans of nuclear physics communities or large-scale accelerator facilities. Information on the chemical and physical properties of superheavy elements (Z>103) or nuclei is notoriously difficult to...

326. The Electron Ion Collider (EIC): Physics and Status

Abhay Deshpande (SUNY Stony Brook)

19/08/2024, 09:30

Instrumentation and Facilities

Invited Talk

In 2019 US Department of Energy initiated the process of realizing the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) - by giving the project a Critical Decision 0 - status. This resulted after an almost twenty year effort by scientists around the world to make the scientistic and technical feasibility case for the same. Now the EIC project - being realized jointly by BNL and Jefferson Lab - is well underway....

41. (Zoom) Nuclear Uncertainties and the Interpretation of r-Process Observables

Rebecca Surman (U)

19/08/2024, 10:00

Nuclear Astrophysics

Invited Talk

The astrophysical origins of the heaviest elements via rapid neutron capture remain unresolved, even with exciting recent progress in gravitational wave and astronomical observations. One key barrier to elucidating r-process origins using these new observables are the uncertainties that arise from the unknown properties of the thousands of nuclear species that participate in the r process....

265. In-Flight Rare Isotope Facilities and Related Instrumentation

Alexandra Gade (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

19/08/2024, 11:00

Instrumentation and Facilities

Invited Talk

Rare isotopes far from the valley of beta stability can be efficiently produced in-flight via projectile fragmentation or fission. This presentation will provide an overview of the facilities and their associated instrumentation that makes them unique.

212. Learning from Exotic Hadrons by Using Lattice QCD

Randy Lewis (York University)

19/08/2024, 11:30

Hadron Physics and QCD

Invited Talk

Nuclear physics is built on a solid understanding of individual nucleons, which can ultimately be described in terms of light quarks and gluons. The surprising recent discoveries of several tetraquark and pentaquark candidates, each containing both light and heavy quarks, offer new insight into the physics of quarks and gluons. Lattice QCD is a rigorous first-principles computational...

159. The Contribution of Nuclear Experiments to the Bayesian Inference of the Neutron Stars Equation of State

Francesca Gulminelli (LPC Caen/Université de Caen/ENSICAEN)

19/08/2024, 12:00

Equation of State of Neutron-Rich Nuclear Matter

Invited Talk

General relativity imposes a one-to-one correspondence between the Equation of State (EoS) of nuclear matter and the static properties of neutron stars (NS). Because of that, since the LIGO/Virgo exceptional detection GW170817, nuclear theory and experiments were used to directly constrain the NS properties, together with the information coming from the observations. Gravitational waves and...

177. Ab Initio Theory of Nuclear Scattering and Reactions

Sofia Quaglioni (LLNL)

19/08/2024, 14:00

Nuclear Reactions

Invited Talk

A predictive theory of low-energy scattering and reactions between light nuclei is desirable to aid in precisely determining thermonuclear reaction rates that play an important role in fusion-energy experiments, the evolution of stars and the synthesis of the chemical elements in the universe, and tests of fundamental symmetries. First-principle (or ab initio) methods that solve the quantum...

186. Nuclear Reaction Experiments at TRIUMF-ISAC

Chris Ruiz (TRIUMF)

20/08/2024, 08:30

Nuclear Reactions

Invited Talk

The ISAC (Isotope Separator and Accelerator) Facility at TRIUMF contains two room temperature & one superconducting linear accelerators able to provide rare isotope beams from 0.107 to 16.5 MeV/u, enabling reaction studies from well below the Coulomb barrier to far above it, accessing fusion-evaporation or highly-peripheral transfer reactions. Coupled with a suite of experimental facilities...

281. Jets in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Yi Chen (Vanderbilt University)

20/08/2024, 09:00

Relativistic Heavy Ion collisions, QGP

Invited Talk

Heavy-ion collisions have been a fascinating venue to study Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (QCD), the theory of strong nuclear force, under extreme conditions. When the nuclei collide, an exotic phase of matter, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), is created. The QGP is believed to have existed in the early universe microseconds after the Big Bang. Jets, sprays of particles originating from high-energy...

130. Pursuing New Superheavy Elements: Progress Update from Berkeley Lab

Jacklyn Gates (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

20/08/2024, 09:30

Heavy and Superheavy Elements

Invited Talk

In the past two decades, significant progress has been made with the discovery of elements Z=114-118 through reactions between 48Ca beams and actinide targets, achieving production rates of atoms-per-day or more. Unfortunately, the pursuit of elements beyond Oganesson (Z=118) faces substantial challenges. The synthesis of elements with Z=119 or 120 using 48Ca would necessitate targets of Es...

214. Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich Nuclei Produced in Multinucleon Transfer Reactions at KISS

Yutaka Watanabe (WNSC, IPNS, KEK)

20/08/2024, 10:00

Fusion and Fission

Invited Talk

Multinucleon transfer (MNT) reactions have recently gained renewed interest as they provide access to heavy neutron-rich (n-rich) nuclei, particularly around N = 126 and actinides, which are relevant to r-process nucleosynthesis [1]. They produce a wide variety of nuclides around both the projectile and the target, with a wide distribution of angles and energies, requiring the development of...

236. Recent Nuclear Structure Studies with Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy

Silvia M. Lenzi (University of Padua and INFN)

20/08/2024, 11:00

Nuclear Structure from Collisions

Invited Talk

A comprehensive picture of nuclear structure results from the complementary information obtained at the different facilities by means of a variety of nuclear reactions and complex experimental setups. Gamma-ray spectroscopy is the ideal tool to obtain detailed information on different nuclear properties. The coupling of gamma-arrays to particle detectors has increase enormously the selective...

257. (Zoom) Nucleon Spin Structure

Oleg Eyser (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

20/08/2024, 11:30

Hadron Physics and QCD

Invited Talk

The partonic structure of the proton has been established in deep inelastic scattering and a detailed picture of the nucleon has emerged from a wide range of experiments and global analyses. Hadronic collisions allow direct access to the gluon content in the nucleon and polarized beams introduce an additional degree of freedom, spin, which is naturally connected to parton kinematics. Polarized...

295. Determination of the Equation of State from Nuclear Experiments and Neutron Star Observations

Betty Tsang (FRIB)

20/08/2024, 12:00

Equation of State of Neutron-Rich Nuclear Matter

Invited Talk

Nuclear experiments become the latest ‘messenger’ to help with unravelling the mysteries of neutron stars. Combining information from astronomical observations and laboratory experiments reveals how nucleons interact in both nuclei and stars. In this talk, I’ll review the current status of the Equation of State obtained from experiments and astrophysics constraints and how they compare to ab...

310. Ultra-Sensitive Accelerator Mass Spectrometry for Detection of Interstellar Fe-60, Hf-182 and Pu-244

Anton Wallner (HZDR)

20/08/2024, 14:00

Applications of Nuclear Science and Technologies

Invited Talk

Earth is exposed to nearby cosmic events. Freshly produced radionuclides in the interstellar medium contain information about how and where the heavy elements are made in nature. The solar system moves through the interstellar medium (ISM) and collects interstellar dust particles that contain fresh nucleosynthetic signatures, including the radionuclides Fe-60 (t${}_{1/2}$=2.6 Myr) and Pu-244...

351. Isotopes and Identities: The Physics of Complex Interactions

Prof. Gwen Grinyer (University of Regina)

20/08/2024, 16:40

EDI

Invited Talk

We are all star dust. Everyone we know and everything we see here on Earth are the leftovers of massive nuclear explosions that occurred naturally in our universe, a long time ago. Understanding the origins of the chemical elements, and how we came to be, requires detailed knowledge of the complex subatomic interactions between neutrons and protons that led to the existence of bound nuclei and...

360. IUPAP and Nuclear Physics

Iris Dillmann (TRIUMF), Mathis Wiedeking (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

20/08/2024, 17:10

Invited Talk

218. Ab Initio Prediction of α(d,γ)6Li and Impact of the 6Li Properties onto α -Induced Reactions of Astrophysical Interest

Chloe Hebborn (Facility for Rare Isotopes Beam, Michigan State University)

21/08/2024, 11:00

Nuclear Reactions

Invited Talk

Accurate predictions of nuclear reaction rates are essential to refine our comprehension of the nucleosynthesis and to support the experimental study of unstable nuclei. Reactions involving light nuclei at low energies can be accurately described using first-principle methods, treating all nucleons as active. For reactions with heavier nuclei and at energies above ~10 MeV/nucleon, such...

40. (Zoom) Recent Results on Hypernuclei

Tomofumi Nagae (Kyoto University)

21/08/2024, 11:30

Hadron Physics and QCD

Invited Talk

New experimental data on various hypenuclei have been produced at J-PARC hadron experimental facility, in Japan. New information on hyperon-proton interactions are accumulated with high intensity hyperon proton scattering measurements one of which was J-PARC E40 measuring ${\mathrm{\Sigma }}^{+}$p and ${\mathrm{\Sigma }}^{-}$p scattering at rather high momentum. It was suggested that the effects of the repulsive core...

63. SPES: Status and Plans for Completion

Prof. Faical Azaiez (LNL-INFN)

21/08/2024, 12:00

Instrumentation and Facilities

Invited Talk

INFN-LNL is constructing an ISOL (Isotope Separation On Line) facility to deliver neutron rich ion beams up to 10 A MeV, making use of the linear accelerator ALPI as the post-accelerator. In parallel, an applied physics facility based on the usage of the high intensity proton beam from the cyclotron driver of the ISOL facility, is included. The status and future plans for completion of the...

332. Frontiers in Ab-Initio Computations of Atomic Nuclei

Gaute Hagen

22/08/2024, 08:30

Nuclear Structure from Collisions

Invited Talk

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales ranging from hundreds of MeV in binding energies to fractions of an MeV for low-lying collective excitations. Describing these different energy scales within an ab-initio framework is a long-standing challenge that we overcome by using high-performance computing, many-body methods with polynomial scaling, and ideas from effective-field-theory. With...

308. A Fluid Dynamic Perspective on High Energy Nucleus Collisions

Prof. Stefan Floerchinger (Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena)

22/08/2024, 09:00

Relativistic Heavy Ion collisions, QGP

Invited Talk

The soft or low transverse momentum physics of relativistic heavy ion collisions can be well described by relativistic fluid dynamics. This is a universal theoretical description which employs from QCD as the underlying quantum field theory the thermodynamic equation of state and transport properties like viscosities and conductivities, as well as relaxation times. I will review the overall...

345. Ultrahigh Dose-Rate (FLASH) Radiotherapy at the TRIUMF ARIEL Beamline

Prof. Magdalena Bazalova-Carter (UVic)

22/08/2024, 09:30

Applications of Nuclear Science and Technologies

Invited Talk

This presentation will provide an overview of ultrahigh dose-rate (FLASH) radiotherapy, one of the most exciting recent advancements in radiotherapy of cancer. FLASH radiotherapy, delivered in a fraction of a second, is an experimental treatment modality that reduces normal tissue toxicity while maintaining tumor control compared to conventional radiotherapy. FLASH radiotherapy is typically...

162. Active Targets and Time Projection Chambers for Nuclear Physics

Thomas Roger (GANIL)

22/08/2024, 10:00

Instrumentation and Facilities

Invited Talk

The use of active targets and time projection chambers in nuclear physics experiments can be traced back nearly 30 years. These detectors have found profitable applications due to their intrinsic high efficiency and their ability to be operated with a very large effective target thickness while maintaining the ability to track low-energy recoil particles. The combination of rapidly decreasing...

60. R-Process in Neutron Star Mergers and Supernovae

Almudena Arcones (TU Darmstadt)

22/08/2024, 11:00

Nuclear Astrophysics

Invited Talk

In 2017, a multimessenger era started with the first gravitational wave detection from the merger of two neutron stars (GW170817) and the rich electromagnetic follow-up. The most exciting electromagnetic counterpart was the kilonova. The neutron-rich material ejected during the neutron star merger undergoes an r-process (rapid neutron capture process) that produces heavy elements and a...

358. (Zoom) The Superheavy Nuclei: Fusion and Fission

Khuyagbaatar Jadambaa (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

22/08/2024, 11:30

Heavy and Superheavy Elements

Invited Talk

Superheavy nuclei (SHN) with extremely large amount of nucleons (e.g., protons up to Z = 126) are still one of the main subject in nuclear physics 1. The main purpose of this research is to examine the fission-stability of SHN at around Z = 114 − 126 and N = 184, where occurrences of next closed shells are theoretically expected [1].

To date, SHN with Z up to 118 (Og, Oganneson) are known...

237. Radionuclide Production and Chelation to Enable the Development of Radiopharmaceuticals for Imaging and Therapy

Caterina Ramogida (TRIUMF & Simon Fraser University)

22/08/2024, 12:00

Applications of Nuclear Science and Technologies

Invited Talk

Radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) is emerging as a promising method to treat advanced and hard-to-treat cancers. This approach relies on a radionuclide attached to a targeting vector that has strong affinity for unique cell biomarkers overexpressed on cancer cells, enabling the direct and selective delivery of a radioactive payload to diseased cells to facilitate diagnosis/staging or therapy,...

49. Structure of the Heaviest Elements

Dr Araceli Lopez-Martens (IJCLab)

22/08/2024, 14:00

Heavy and Superheavy Elements

Invited Talk

Heavy and super-heavy nuclei, which form the upper end of the chart of nuclei, owe their stability, and for the heaviest systems their sheer existence, to the delicate interplay between the repulsive Coulomb interaction between the many protons of the nucleus and the strong nuclear interaction, which binds the nucleons together. The study of the heaviest nuclei is not only an experimental...

305. Exploring Nuclei at the Edge of Nuclear Landscape

Takashi Nakamura

23/08/2024, 09:00

Nuclear Reactions

Invited Talk

How many more neutrons can be added to a given atomic nucleus, and how do such extremely neutron-rich nuclei behave? These are fundamental questions for understanding nuclear structure and relevant nuclear interactions at the edge of stability of nuclei, the driplines. I will show the recent progress of spectroscopic studies of neutron-rich nuclei near and beyond the neutron drip line using...

337. Neutrinos and Nuclear Security

Patrick Huber (Virgina Tech)

23/08/2024, 09:30

Applications of Nuclear Science and Technologies

Invited Talk

Nuclear reactors are the brightest artificial neutrino sources and have been the workhorse of neutrino physics since the discovery of the neutrino. In the 1970s Lev Mikaelyan realized that neutrinos also can be used to learn about the internal state of a nuclear reactor. The past decade has seen a significant increase in the interest in reactor neutrinos and their applications to nuclear...

303. Nuclear Dynamics in the Framework of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory with Pairing Correlations

Piotr Magierski (Warsaw University of Technology)

23/08/2024, 10:00

Heavy and Superheavy Elements

Invited Talk

Superfluidity and superconductivity are remarkable manifestations of quantum coherence at a macroscopic scale. The existence of superfluidity has been experimentally confirmed in many condensed matter systems, in He-3 and He-4 liquids, in nuclear systems including nuclei and neutron stars, in both fermionic and bosonic cold atoms in traps, and it is also predicted to show up in dense quark...

323. Theoretical Perspectives on Hadron Structure

Marc Vanderhaegen (U. Mainz)

23/08/2024, 11:00

Hadron Physics and QCD

Invited Talk

Nucleons are the building blocks of atomic nuclei, and are responsible for more than 99 % of the visible matter in the universe. Around 50 years after the establishment of Quantum Chromo Dynamics as the quantum field theory describing the strong
interaction within the Standard Model of particle physics, the precise way in which the quarks and gluons compose the nucleon and build up its global...

230. Experimental Challenges in Underground Nuclear Astrophysics Laboratory

Dr Andreas Best (INFN Naples)

23/08/2024, 11:30

Nuclear Astrophysics

Invited Talk

Nuclear fusion reactions are at the heart of nuclear astrophysics as they control the energy production in stars and determine the synthesis of the elements in our Universe. Most cross sections are too small to be directly measured in a laboratory at the stellar energies. They are extrapolated by means of phenomenological nuclear models anchored to available high energy data. Cosmic rays,...

61. Quasi-Free Scattering Experiments in Inverse Kinematics at GSI

Thomas Aumann (TU Darmstadt)

23/08/2024, 15:30

Nuclear Structure from Collisions

Invited Talk

Quasi-free knockout reactions have been established in the past years as a versatile spectroscopic tool to study exotic nuclei accelerated to high energy of few hundred MeV/nucleon. The advantage of inverse kinematics is the possibility of kinematical complete measurements of the reaction including the detection of the remaining residue after the knockout. The applications of quasi-free...

244. Charged Particle Tracking Detectors for Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Jochen Klein (CERN)

23/08/2024, 16:00

Instrumentation and Facilities

Invited Talk

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide unique opportunities to study a variety of physics questions, in particular in the realm of QCD matter at high temperatures and/or densities. The need to track and identify the large number of particles produced in individual collisions poses particular challenges on the detectors. This results in different optimisations of experiments targeting...